Samuel Johnson Quotes
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
Quotes to Explore
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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It's always great to have a great mascara that makes your lashes look thick and full. That's a definite must have.
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
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Are you saying that I don't deserve love just because of the body I'm in? I wouldn't say that to you. That's horrible. I wouldn't do that to you. I deserve love. People like me deserve love because we are human.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
